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16,000+ .nyc Domains Will Be Released Next Week
September 29, 2015 @ 11:45 AMSome good .nyc domain names will be released next week. .NYC will release 16,674 previously blocked .NYC domain names on October 8. The domain names were all blocked as name collisions. Not all name collision names will be released, however. Names like Broadway.nyc, Brooklyn.nyc, Bike.nyc and Brewery.nyc are still being held back, presumably as premium…
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Uniregistry Will Stick With Risky .hiv Model for Now
September 29, 2015 @ 7:52 AMUniregistry has agreed to take over the new gTLD .hiv from original registry dotHIV, and said it has no plans to immediately change the business model. “We are going to maintain the status quo, at least at the start,” said Uniregistry general counsel Bret Fausett. “We will give it a year or so on our…
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ICANN On "Knife Edge" After Accountability Impasse
September 29, 2015 @ 7:34 AMThe ICANN board of directors and the community group tasked with improving its accountability have failed to come to a compromise over the future direction of the organization, despite an intense two-day argument at the weekend. As the often fractious Los Angeles gathering drew to a close, ICANN chair Steve Crocker said that the board…
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Lawsuit Filed to Recover Stolen OnlineMBA.com Domain Name
September 29, 2015 @ 7:22 AMCompany files lawsuit after losing UDRP. After failing to recover the allegedly stolen domain name OnlineMBA.com through a UDRP, the previous owner of the domain name has turned to the courts. CMN.com, LLC, which generates leads for education companies, filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in Virignia late last week to recover the…
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New TLD Competition Report is Worthless
September 29, 2015 @ 6:27 AMGetting answers to the wrong questions… ICANN released a report yesterday called “Phase I Assessment of the Competitive Effects Associated with the New gTLD Program”, undertaken by an outside research firm. I found the report mostly worthless. This is partly because the new TLD program’s focus on increasing choice and competition is based on the…
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.com Tops 120 Million Total Domain Names & Over 119 Million Active Domains
September 29, 2015 @ 5:30 AMVerisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names has topped 120 Million for the 1st time and likewise the number of domain names active in the .Com zone file top 119 million. The .Com domain name base which has topped 120 million domains is explained as: “”The domain name base is the active…
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After Setting Records On Kickstarter, Smartwatch Company Pebble Secures Pebble.com
September 29, 2015 @ 3:25 AMPebble Technology has secured the matching domain name to its brand, Pebble.com according to whois records around March 2015 and has now switched to that domain name as its main domain.
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Senator Cruz Asks The GAO to Determine Whether Obama Has "The Power to Give Away The Internet"
September 29, 2015 @ 1:45 AMU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is also running for President, along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday…
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Blackjack.com: a Rare RDNH in an "Outside The Scope" UDRP
September 28, 2015 @ 11:51 AMPanel rules reverse domain name hijacking in Blackjack.com dispute. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel has found the complainants in a UDRP over Blackjack.com to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. You’re probably not surprised about an RDNH in a case for a million dollar generic like Blackjack.com. What is unique is that…
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One Direction Wins The Right to The Domain Name OneDirection.video
September 28, 2015 @ 10:44 AM1D Media Limited of London, just won control of the domain name OneDirection.video in a UDRP on behalf of one of the most famous pop bands in the world. The one member panel of Richard G. Lyon awarded the domain on a pretty easy case saying “that the term ONE DIRECTION has no sensible or…
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